Penance (Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix) is a fictional superheroine and mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears in the X-Men series of comic books, and first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #316 (Sept. 1994). Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo, she was originally a member of the teenage mutant group Generation X (1994), and later X-Factor and X-Men. Monet is a Muslim superhero and has illustrated the struggle of accepting "different" people central to X-Men stories.